CHAPTER VIL 
MARKETING OF BROILERS 
To the poultryman who makes a specialty 
of table eggs, the sale of broilers is simply 
a side line; yet it is a part of the business that 
adds considerably to the year’s income. 
Half your young chickens will probably be 
roosters. Since these little fellows can be 
sold as broilers when two to three months 
old, it is the first revenue that you will re- 
ceive from your spring chickens. In addi- 
tion to your own stock it would be very easy 
to buy up little roosters from other smaller 
producers, so the broiler end of the business 
could be made quite a large item. 
Broilers are sold alive as well as dressed, 
some preferring one way and others purchas- 
ing only when dressed. For the poultryman 
catering to the egg market, the market tak- 
ing the broilers alive, would seem to be the 
most satisfactory since it requires little time 
to prepare the birds for delivery. At the 
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